Super Invoice 6.71 is available for download from our site. It’s a major upgrade, featuring:

* Support for FileDrops and FileDropCombos
* Option to use a form for all edits, when EIP isn’t desired, but you want the in-memory processing and transaction support
* Ability to invoke EIP mode is even more intuitive (e.g.: toggle checkbox with single click, without entering EIP mode first)
* Significantly improved transaction processing and options
* Popup menu support
* Many more methods for hooking into the underlying classes
* Support for local variables as EIP fields
* Improved documentation
* Compatible with Clarion 7-Beta

For upgrades and the new passwords, please contact our distributor, Mitten Software.

LAME mp3-encoder was designed as an open-source application for many years and now it’s the best mp3-encoder ever!

LAME gives you the best possible quality/compression, provides lots of function and works very fast. The original LAME mp3-encoder is aviable from the official homepage (www.mp3dev.org), but it’s only aviable as a console-application. Such console-applications are very flexible, but most users prefer to work with GUI (graphical user interface) applications.

LameXP is a GUI for the LAME mp3-encoder, that makes it much more comfortable to use LAME. Using LameXP is very easy, because the user-interface has been desingned as simple as possible and it uses the new WindowsXP style.

I’ve just uploaded some more video tutorials to the site.. For more info please see here.

PS
Personally, I think that the J-Spell video is the 2nd most impressive thing I’ve seen since FM2. J-Arrogant?

Gary James

More Clarion# on tap for May

You may not spend much time considering Unicode, XML, and digital signal processing, but you couldn’t get through your day without them.
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FastPictureViewer is a small and fast application, so simple compared to usual image viewers that it’s purpose might not be immediately apparent. As a minimalist picture viewer, the program is optimized to do just one task: browse entire folders of digital photos as quickly as possible, while allowing for sharpness checks (instant flip to 100% view) and enabling single-click copy of the keepers to a preset folder, along with single-keystroke Adobe XMP and Vista rating/labeling.

Metallica’s outspoken drummer talks embracing the Web and metal’s new-millennium surge.

iQ-XML Version 2.0 is now available.

Version 2.0
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* Enhancement: Many changes were made to the core Parser functions to make them even faster.
* Enhancement: Added SoapHeaderOnly option to Load functions.
* Enhancement: Created and compiled for Clarion Versions 5.5, 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3
* Enhancement: More text/information in online help.

iQ-XML is a free tool for Clarion developers to add XML functionality to their applications with very little knowledge. It offers many features not
found in Clarion’s own XML functions. iQ-XML comes with both Parser and Writer functions. Generate an XML document from a Clarion Queue, Group structure, or using the API’s. A novice user can read a complex XML document and fill a Clarion Queue easily. Navigate easily through the XML document, finding nodes and parsing only what you need.

* Process XML files with CDATA and attributes.
* Ability to handle Binary fields (parser and writer) with binary encoding.
* Easily fill queue contents with different field names including dimensional fields (parser and writer).
* Easily debug your process with an included XML Debugger as well as debug the contents of your own queue.
* Cascade field contents from one level in to another level during parsing.
* Easily prime empty queue fields with values or skip added queue entries based on optional data requirements.
* Works easily with both Clarion Legacy and ABC.
* PDF and Online HTML documentation as well as example applications included.
* and so much more - and all this is totally FREE!

Enjoy!

Robert

You know when climate change is biting hard when instead of a vast expanse of snow the North Pole is a vast expanse of water. This year, for the first time, Arctic scientists are preparing for that possibility.
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Yahoo failed to agree to an acquisition deal with Microsoft by Saturday, the deadline Microsoft had set for wrapping up negotiations.
Now Microsoft must decide whether to pursue a hostile takeover via a proxy fight or to drop the bid and seek other acquisition alternatives.
All along, Microsoft’s management had indicated strongly that they would pursue Yahoo via all available options, including the hostile route of ousting the current board by proposing its own slate of director candidates at the next Yahoo shareholders’ meeting.
But Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and CFO Chris Liddell softened that stance in public comments last week, saying that giving up on the acquisition would also be an option.
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From what Paul Jansen has seen, everyone has a favorite programming language.

We can now..

- Replace the WebBrowser control’s popup menus with our own Clarion popups!
- Design our own Print Preview screens!
- Save the loaded HTML document, specifying a filename
- Hide the control’s scrollbars
- And MUCH more!

For more info please see here

Or download the demo from here

StrategyOnline.co.za

On Thursday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer conceded that Microsoft could continue selling its Windows XP operating system past the current end-of-life date — June 30 — if there was sufficient market demand for it.

“XP will hit an end-of-life. We have announced one. If customer feedback varies, we can always wake up smarter, but right now we have a plan for end-of-life for new XP shipments,” said Ballmer, who was speaking at a press conference to announce a new “innovation centre” in the city of Mons in Belgium.

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With Microsoft’s announcement late last week that it will release SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (SP3) this summer, it begs the question: What’s the status of SQL Server 2008?

Officially, it’s still on track to be released to manufacturing in the third quarter and Microsoft officials say nothing has changed on that front. But some say they won’t be surprised if the RTM actually slips again into the fourth quarter.

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Yoko Ono is suing the producers of a movie that challenges the concept of Darwinian evolution, saying they used the song “Imagine” without her permission and led the blogosphere to accuse her of “selling out.”
In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan, Ono accuses the producers of “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” of suggesting to viewers that those who guard John Lennon’s legacy somehow authorized or sponsored the film.
The producers of the film, which features Ben Stein challenging Darwinian theories that prevail in academic circles and suggesting that life could have emerged through intelligent design, said they used only “a very small portion of the song.”
“Based on the fair use doctrine, news commentators and film documentarians regularly use material in the same way we do,” Premise Media said in a statement. “Unbiased viewers of the film will see that the ‘Imagine’ clip was used as part of a social commentary in the exercise of free speech and freedom of inquiry.”
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